Posts Tagged ‘mercedes’

Mercedes C Class Coupe unveiled, about blerrie time

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

For a while Mercedes trucked on with the frankly weak C Class hatchback thingy. With tough competition from Audi’s A5 and BMW’s 3-Series coupe range, it really was about time to launch something a little more alluring.

Currently, reports say things like: “Little is known about the C-Class Coupe…” What utter claptrap. It’s not like they’re going to fit a Nuclear Fission device to the C350, or offer a microwave as an extra for the cubby hole. Expect standard C-Class engines and trims and of course the obligatory AMG version, which, after our experience with the 4-door C63 AMG, should be shit hot.

For now though we get to enjoy what is simply a terrifically attractive modern Merc.

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Driven (loudly) – The SL 63 AMG MadMan Edition

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Every now and then a movie comes along which quite simply blows you away. A Dark Knight was that movie for me. It is a masterful arrangement of celluloid; a symphony of action, suspense, emotion and well, explosions really.

Heath Ledger was remarkable as the joker: he personified evil. His polar opposite is obviously our winged hero, in a thankfully less camp batsuit. And representing both sides in one tormented and twisted character: TwoFace. This poor bugger starts of a charming bastion of all that is saintly until someone really pisses him off, creating the most frightening villain imaginable since Anton Chigur in No Country for Old Men.

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Driven: The brutally luxurious S65 AMG Limo-Spec

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

There’s a famous VW ad from the 60s which asked, “Ever wondered how the guy who drives the snow plough, gets to the snowplough?”.  Well if you’ve ever wondered how the guy who owns the snowplough company gets to the snowplough company, Mercedes-Benz has the answer: The S 65 AMG L-spec.

It proves the Germans have a sense of humour after all.  They’ve handed their svelte, distinguished flagship S-Class over to their dark arts division, AMG, and the result is the most powerful series saloon ever built.

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Gullwing Reborn: Merc + Retro = Success

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

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Bringing back the past is always risky. Volkswagen achieved about three days of glory with the reborn Beetle. Ford has generated billions with their gamble on the new Mustang, and Fiat has achieved similar bank-busting success with the 500.

But the SLS was always going to be different. Built from the ground up by AMG, this is not a SL63 AMG in drag. This is all new; and the nostalgia is almost as powerful as the 386kW V8.

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